to chuse such as are without reproach, married to but one wife, whose children are obedient, not accused of debauchery, nor unruly.

He must hold firmly to the faithful message as it has been taught, so that he will be able to give exhortation in such healthy teaching and correct those who speak against it.

You must stop the mouths of such men, for they overthrow the faith of whole families, teaching what they ought not, just for the sake of making money.

Such testimony is true. For this reason rebuke them sharply that they may be healthy in the faith

Do you, however, speak of such subjects as properly have a place in sound Christian teaching.

In the same way exhort aged women to let their conduct be such as becomes consecrated persons. They must not be slanderers nor enslaved to wine-drinking. They must be teachers of what is right.

let your words be sound and such that no exception can be taken to them, so that the opposite side may be confounded by finding nothing that they can say to our discredit.

Teach them not to contradict or to pilfer, but to show such praiseworthy fidelity in everything, as to recommend the teaching about God our Savior by all that they do.

This is a faithful and trustworthy saying; and concerning these things I want you to speak with great confidence, so that those who have believed God [that is, those who have trusted in, relied on, and accepted Christ Jesus as Savior,] will be careful to participate in doing good and honorable things. These things are excellent [in themselves] and profitable for the people.

reject therefore such an heretical man, after the first and second admonition; knowing that such a one is perverted,

Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.

Our people must really learn to profess honest occupations, so as to be able to meet such special occasions; they must not be idle.